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The Christian God: Sermon for Trinity SundayWhat can this Sunday mean, what should we be thinking about, saying. Trinity Sunday. The only Sunday dedicated to a doctrine, a teaching of the Church. All the other feasts are commemorations of an event: Christmas, Epiphany, Good Friday, Easter, the Ascension, Pentecost. But this feast is different: this is a celebration of the God we believe in, not in some abstract and idealistic way, but as who God is. How many times have we said the Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit? We...

Just days after calling out China on Newsmax for "buying" President Joe Biden and son Hunter, former President Donald Trump warned the United States will see its economic and world power usurped by Beijing. "We're going to be dependent on China, if he doesn't do something about it," Trump said in an exclusive interview on Newsmax's "Dick Morris Democracy." "And China's getting away with murder." Trump also said China is going to seize more economic power on Biden's push for green energy. "Well, we have to go elsewhere," Trump told Morris. "We have to go to China or other countries,...

The morning queue for the high street fast-food outlet shuffles forward. The sun peeks above the skyline of downtown, bathing me and other hungry patrons in a golden hue, warming us, eagerly awaiting our bacon sandwich and coffee, or similar.I reach the head of the queue and an employee stops me. “Vaccination papers, please.”I stare blankly. He repeats his demand and I shake my head. “I’ve not been vaccinated.”A gasp rises from those around me and they back away as if I’m Typhoid Mary. The guy steps in front of me, folding his arms, barring my path into the establishment....

The song begins at precisely the 1-minute mark in the video.Many of you will or should recognize lots of familiar faces in the group, including BJ Thomas, who just recently passed, Willie Nelson, Bobby Bare, Roy Clark, George "Goober" Lindsey (from Andy Griffith), others._____________________________"Here's Glen performing a beautiful version of the John Hartford classic "Gentle On My Mind" live on "Ryman Country Homecoming" filmed in 1999 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Ray Stevens was honored to be on stage for this special event along with country pioneers Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Lorrie Morgan, Willie Nelson, Roy Clark, Lynn...

If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device, you have only 10 days to opt out of an experiment that leaves your personal privacy and security hanging in the balance. On June 8, the merchant, Web host, and entertainment behemoth will automatically enroll the devices in Amazon Sidewalk. The new wireless mesh service will share a small slice of your Internet bandwidth with nearby neighbors who don’t have connectivity and help you to their bandwidth when you don’t have a connection. By default, Amazon devices including Alexa, Echo, Ring, security cams, outdoor lights, motion sensors, and Tile trackers...

Joe Biden as vice president hired one of his son Hunter’s investment-firm staffers as a personal assistant, emails from his son’s discarded laptop show. Anne Marie Person, 34, left Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca Partners in 2014 to join the veep’s staff — and stayed in close contact with her former bosses, keeping them apprised of visiting dignitaries and official events they might have interest in, according to the emails. Rosemont Seneca and its affiliates have come under scrutiny, as the US Department of Justice investigates Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings as part of a possible tax-fraud probe. Hunter Biden secured meetings...

Ok my friends this is where the rubber meets the road. I don't know if this one-hour program on the tube will be black-centric or if it's about dumb teen age girls who get into trouble. As an older man the only thing I can do for them is give them a ride to the doctor for their prenatal care. That's it. What can WE do? We can enlist OUR women into the cause. They do the heavy lifting(counseling). Church women are up to it. Don't you think the religious folks out there care more about them than the left?...

Explanation: Why is the Moon so dusty? On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand. On the Moon, the history of constant micrometeorite bombardment has blasted away at the rocky surface creating a layer of powdery lunar soil or regolith. For the Apollo astronauts and their equipment, the pervasive, fine, gritty dust was definitely a problem. On the lunar surface in December 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan needed to repair one of their rover's fenders in an effort to keep the rooster tails of dust away from themselves and their gear....

An Instagram post promoting the yellow badge was no longer on Instagram, but the shop defended its product A Nashville hat shop on Saturday stood by its promotion of a yellow badge in the shape of the Star of David emblazoned with the words "NOT VACCINATED" as a few demonstrators protested outside. Organizers planned an afternoon demonstration at Hatwrks, and social media posts showed a few protesters alongside a banner that read, "NO NAZIS IN NASHVILLE." An Instagram post featuring the item and teasing forthcoming "trucker caps" with a similar decoration was no longer active Saturday, but Hatwrks appeared to...

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

In an article last week, it was reported that 18 cases of heart inflammation after COVID-19 'vaccination' were reported in Connecticut. All required hospitalization. As of 5/25/21 none of those cases were in the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, although another 135 cases states were. Note that myocarditis was one of a list of potential side effects discussed by the CDC but never revealed to the public.How is it that 0 out of 18 cases of myocarditis in one state have are not in VAERS? How many other cases exist but have not been reported? How can...

Otto Warmbier’s mother pleads with the judge to stop the Biden-approved extradition. A former U.S. Marine faces extradition to Spain for breaking into the North Korean embassy in Madrid to help a diplomat defect. It appears Biden’s administration is aiding in this process, despite concerns that North Korea plans retribution for this move. Christopher Ahn, 40, faces his final extradition hearing in federal court in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Two years ago, he was freed on $1.3million bail but was forced to serve home confinement ahead of his possible extradition to Spain. The US government is working to extradite Ahn...

A few potentially bad apples could spoil the bunch. That is essentially the logic that David Chipman, President Joe Biden’s nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE or ATF) apparently believes. During his Senate confirmation hearings, Chipman testified that he believes that some “law-abiding” gun owners could potentially become violent, and therefore further restrictions on all gun owners should be deemed necessary. Chipman, who served in the ATF for twenty-five years, has since been a policy advisor for multiple gun control groups including Everytown for Gun Safety and most recently at the Giffords Law...

Hey, all you FR woodworkers - I have a question for you. I have a 30 x 19 terrarium, which is temporarily empty. It is sitting on a 30 x 19" red oak table a friend of mine built a few years ago to hold it. The table is made of two 3/4" thick oak boards joined by a "biscuit", which lay atop 4 vertical oak legs 16" high, which are 2.5" wide x 3/4" thick. There is a 2.5" x 3/4" thick horizontal strut between the legs on 3 sides. This is so I can fit my gecko tank...

Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana. Listen LiveInfo *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.

Lucifer the series. Anyone else watching? Season 5b released

A group of 27 prominent public health scientists from outside China is pushing back against a steady stream of stories and even a scientific paper suggesting a laboratory in Wuhan, China, may be the origin of the outbreak of COVID-19. “The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins,” the scientists, from nine countries, write in a statement published online by The Lancet yesterday. The letter does not criticize any specific assertions about the origin of the outbreak, but many posts on social media have singled out...

“For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison” (2 Corinthians 4:17). It is far easier to endure trials when we value the future over the present. A few years ago the popular Back to the Future movies dealt rather whimsically with the possibility of time travel, which always involved entering the future. The recurring theme was that with all the complications of tampering with the future, it was better to live in the present. Viewers could infer that, ultimately, it is not worth it to dwell a lot on the future....

As reported in The Epoch Times recently, the Oklahoma Legislature recently passed a Bill banning mask mandates in schools. In Germany, mask mandates in schools have also been under the microscope, in particular in an extraordinary judgment given last month. On April 8, the Weimar District Court banned two schools in that district from enforcing mask mandates, social distancing requirements, and rapid COVID-19 testing on their students. The court also ordered the schools to no longer conduct distance learning. The decision followed a legal action by the mother of two students, aged 8 and 14 respectively, at one of the...

It has been said that “everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power.” An intriguing notion, but incomplete. Speech, especially the fight to control the speech of others, is also about power. How else to describe Facebook’s ban on users sharing the claim the COVID-19 virus came from a Chinese lab? The sudden lifting of the ban, following a White House plan to investigate the pandemic’s cause, only underscores the social media giant’s desire to restrict ­users’ speech. Now you can’t, now you can. ­Either way, it’s speech control. If just Facebook and others in Big Tech lusted...